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2016-08-13: git-pbuilder 1.42

A minor update to my glue script for building software with pdebuild and
git-buildpackage. (Yes, still needs to get rewritten in Python.)

This release stops using the old backport location for oldstable builds
since oldstable is now wheezy, which merged the backports archive into the
regular archive location. The old location is still there for squeeze
just in case anyone needs it.

It also adds a new environment variable, GIT_PBUILDER_PDEBUILDOPTIONS,
that can be used to pass options directly to pdebuild. Previously, there
was only a way to pass options to the builder, via pdebuild, but not to
configure pdebuild itself. There are some times when that's useful, such
as to pass --use-pdebuild-internal. This was based on a patch from
Rafał Długołęcki.

2016-08-14: Summer haul

The reality is that I've just not been reading very much, as you can
probably tell from the lack of reviews here. Lots of other things have
been occupying my time, including rather too much on-line political
reading eating into my off-line book reading. But hope springs eternal,
so more books have been acquired in the interim. Since I use these posts
to keep myself from buying duplicates, in the absence of a real database
that I've not yet written or set up, here they are:

This a pretty random collection of things from authors I know I like,
non-fiction that looked really interesting from on-line reviews, the next
book for book club reading for work (The Design of Everyday Things,
which I've somehow never managed to read), and the first SF novel by an
old college friend of mine (Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis Chen).